According to this wikipedia entry, the homicide rate per 100,000 were for the countries you mentioned:
US - 2.98
Canada - 0.76
Switzerland - 0.58
UK - 0.03
The figure for total firearm related deaths (homicide + suicide + unintentional) were:
US - 9.0
Canada - 4.78
Switzerland - 6.4
UK - 0.22
Interestingly, the only country in Europe that has a larger proportion of deaths per 100,000 than Switzerland was Montenegro (a part of former Yugoslavia). OK, most Swiss deaths were suicides rather then homicides, but the ratio in all cases was over 10 times greater than in the UK.
I'm in the UK. I quite like our gun laws, and the figures show they work.
I'm not exactly sure why, but when it comes to mapping some non-existent being's non-existent journey, Bing seems somehow so much more appropriate than Google.
Why the fuck do we keep voting these people into power?
Oh, various reasons, ranging from party-tribalism, PR (advertising that speaks to our emotions rather than to our reason), short-termism (individually and collectively), a biased press, and even the electoral system. Talking of which, we had the opportunity recently (in the UK) to try and improve (albeit slightly) our electoral system, and in a referendum, it was rejected - and rejected by a large margin - by the voters. I've really never quite understood why.
I think that the whole process of politics is probably corrupting. A new MP (or whatever) may be visionary and idealistic, but the tribalism and power-mongering (for 'promotion' and 'ministerial office') seems to destroy this. It becomes a game - you against the opposition (or even against members of one's own party), and you'll do whatever it takes to keep you in your job, even if that may not be the best for the nation in the long term. Those who seem to keep their idealism and vision do not make progress or get promoted. They're not good for a political 'career'.
To some extent we the voters are complicit in allowing it to happen.
As to IPv6, I'm sure we'll get there after the US and the rest of Europe (and possibly the rest of the world) have been using it for some time. And all the while we'll be asking why the UK isn't managing to compete globally in new technologies.
And as to Global Warming, I think we're doomed. It's actually quite depressing. There is a part of me relieved that I don't have children.
(and those laws may also mean the police/TLAs can show up and "request" that you install their little black box next to your router).
Would that be a problem? I thought the point about a Tor exit node is to hide the source of any request, not necessarily the destination. A black box would just log the destination (the 'source' being the TOR node itself).
There are non-Muslim Arabs, and there are Muslim non-Arabs. (There are even those who call themselves 'Arab Jews', e.g. André_Azoulay).
There is also a Jewish population in Iran. Although it seems their condition is not ideal, many seem quite content to stay. (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Jews.
I also find it ironic that in the same paragraph you can reference the Holocaust (which we both can agree was terrible), yet then use dehumanising language like "... savages who want to put the world back into the bronze age and FORCE everyone to pray to Allah" (For respect I've capitalised 'Allah' from your quote, even though I'm not a Muslim). See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dehumanization. It is clearly wrong to say all Muslims or Arabs are 'savages', as much as it was clearly wrong to classify all Jews as 'cholera bacilli' (as one German antisemitic journalist described them).
Sometimes I fear we become a reflection of that which we propose to hate.
I remember Gerry Adams being interviewed on TV during the ban. He was silent, and they had an actor reading out his words, rather like a ventriloquist dummy! It was very bizarre.
The ban applied to both Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness (and others).
Interestingly, since then we've had the Good Friday Agreement, and Martin McGuinness is now deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland. Peace can win out in the end.
and so, its all the jooos fault. always the jooos fault.
the rocket rallies STARTED on the hamas side. but that does not become part of your post, does it? its the jooos that are wrong.
the hatred of jews in the modern US is sickening. I'm not sure why its so in vogue to blame all the problems in the area on the jews, but nothing seems to have changed with that great Last Lesson that the world had some 60+ yrs ago.
Israel != Jews. Yes, Israel is a Jewish state, but to have concerns over what Israel does in no way makes one anti-semitic. Indeed, there are Jews who have concern over the actions of Israel. Unfortunately, it is very convenient for some (on all sides) to blur the distinction between 'The State of Israel' and 'Jew'.
Also, to have concerns over Israeli actions in no way means support for the actions of Hamas. Another distinction it seems convenient for some to blur.
It was probably more of a (positive) comment on the number of women who seem to be involved in the issue / in the EU Parliament.
Found an interesting document from my parliament (warning - PDF): http://www.parliament.uk/briefing-papers/SN01250.pdf. From this it seems that 35% of the EU Parliament are women. (The corresponding percentage for the UK is 22%. No idea what it is for the US after the recent elections, but according to the document in 2010 it was 17%).
Still could be better, of course. Only two parliament has either more women than men or the same number - Rwanda and Andorra! Given the figures globally I can't think that a positive observation on the role women are playing in any parliament can be considered misogynistic.
Alternatively, was the work you were looking for misandristic?
Based on the guilt by association principle (Korean: [some Korean text that Slashdot won't print here], yeonjwaje) they are often imprisoned together with the whole family including children and the elderly.[12] All prisoners are detained until they die and prisoners are never released.[18]
So no, not just the USA.
Of course, if you meant the rest of the civilized world, then you'd probably be correct.
Now, I can say the only thing I really don't like in XFCE is Thunar... for me it lacks lots of functionality (like, ffs, copy-paste with right button!). But even so, i cant even think of trying to use unity or gnome shell again.
Thunar 1.2.3 here and I can copy and paste files and text(when renaming) with the right mouse button. Or am I missing something?
Indeed. The only problem I have with Thunar (which is a minor one) is that I can't paste a file into a directory where the files (in 'Detailed List' view) fill up the entire displayed view. One needs to click on white-space for the 'paste' option to appear (and clicking on white-space to the right of files in Detailed List view selects a file). My solution it to temporarily switch to compact list of icon view. I can live with this.
Strangely in my LMDE XFCE Application Menu, The Nautilus icon is the one used! One day I'll fix this. (And it is Thunar 1.2.3 I'm using, I checked in Help > About).
I've no idea how good it is (as I don't use it), but there is an "Enable 3D Acceleration" check-box in the later versions of VirtualBox.
At the very least a VirtualBox installation of Windows (any version) would allow one to get familiar with Windows without the hassle of a complete restore if things go wrong!
What I have mild concerns about is the use of the 3.5 branch of the Linux Kernel. This branch is already flagged as 'EOL', so I can't see any updates past 3.5.7. I'm not aware of any Ubuntu version upgrading a major kernel branch between releases (although I may be wrong). Is this an issue?
I'm from Europe (UK). I don't mind paying taxes. Actually I would like them to go up. That way we can increase what we spend on socially cohesive and useful things like State Education and the NHS. ("Socialised" medicine is generally viewed in an almost diametrically opposite way over here than it seems to be viewed over where you are in the States. I think it is fantastic. I'm not alone, and woe betide any government that breaks it. I can get ill and know I won't be bankrupted).
I'm currently a Java developer. Played with it on-and-off since about 2000 (when I was 40). However didn't become a fully fledged Java developer until 2009. Before that I was a VB6 developer (which I started learning when I was 41!). Next challenge, GWT.
What is more, in any other profession (e.g. medicine, law) where there can be rapid changes in knowledge and skill required, you don't get the issue of 40 (or 50 or 60) being too old.
You're never too old! I intend to keep on with this stuff even when I retire. It's fun!
Out of sheer curiosity, what are the C/C++ alternatives to JEE and associated frameworks/technologies/containers (e.g. EJBs, JSPs, JSFs, Spring, Hibernate, Struts, GWT, Tomcat, JBoss, etc)?
Presumably this means that the affected host systems must have Java installed. Seems to me a brilliant example of the "Write Once, Run Anywhere" paradigm!
If you were to take some GM and some non-GM equivalent into a lab, would it be possible for scientists to analyse the two and tell which was which (say by analysing gene sequences)?
If you were to take some food touched by a black person and some food not touched by a black person into a lab, would it be possible for scientists to analyse the two and tell which was which?
There's the difference. Surely that is why the public should have the right to know about the former and not the latter?
initdb and pg_ctl are under the.../pgsql/bin directory. It was the path to these that I was talking abou (i.e. PostreSQL itself)t, not the path specified by -D (i.e. to a database instance).
No matter, I've managed to install the/pgsql/bin locally using configure/make/make install. Not quite as simple as a unpacking a tar.gz file, but doable.
Replying to myself. Just got PostgreSQL installed locally from source using./configure (using --prefix=/home/...) make and make install. No need to worry about creating a postgres user.
The only dependencies I had to install was libreadline6-dev and libtinfo-dev.
Not quite out-of-the box, but similar to what I have to do the get the Apache HTTPD server running locally.
If the GP is concerned about people being able to download and "tinker," that's not a mainstream concern
As the 'GP' concerned, I agree with you. I also agree that I could install from my distributions repository (assuming it is up-to-date. My repository - LMDE - is based on Debian Testing) or use the.deb from PostgreSQL direct. I agree I could even install it in a virtualised environment.
However, the the comparison originally was against MySQL. Unlike PostgreSQL, with MySQL all you need to do is download a generic.tar.gz and unpack.
(As to the postres user, I may be wrong about needing that if using a local user to make and run PostgreSQL. It may be only needed if installing/building as root, to provide a common access user to PostgreSQL data files but at a lower access that root. At some point I will experiment by building PostgreSQL from source)
I've played around with Sqlite in the past. I'm not sure I'd want it as a drop-in replacement for either MySQL or PostgreSQL. I must admit, as a Java developer I'm more likely to use Apache Derby, which can be used embedded or client/server.
Of course, if there is the facility to run PostgeSQL out-of-the-box and stand-alone, please feel free to correct me!
Sure, I can do that for you. Your assumption is wrong.
I'm sure my assumption is wrong, but until you tell me how to do it, I'm not going to believe you.
For MySQL (and MariaDB) all I need to do is download the.tar.gz Linux generic package, unpack it locally, run 'mysql/scripts/mysql_install_db' and then run 'mysql/bin/mysqld_safe'. All done as me (not root).
For PostgreSQL the only instructions I could find for installing PostgreSQL myself is to build from source (OK with --prefix=$HOME/...) and you still need to create the postgres user (which means it is not stand-alone for my user!).
One day I'll try this, but this is not running PostgreSQL 'out-of-the-box'.
If you know differently, please share how. Thanks.
For me, the one advantage MySQL (and MariaDB, and even Apache Derby!) have over PostgreSQL is that there are versions that can be run stand-alone "out of the box" as a non-root user. PostgreSQL (AFAIK) needs to be installed, and needs to be installed as root (and you need to create a postgres user, etc.).
OK for production, you need to install things properly (as root), but for development / learning / tinkering the ability to run various instances stand-alone is a huge plus.
(Of course, if there is the facility to run PostgeSQL out-of-the-box and stand-alone, please feel free to correct me!)
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According to this wikipedia entry, the homicide rate per 100,000 were for the countries you mentioned:
US - 2.98
Canada - 0.76
Switzerland - 0.58
UK - 0.03
The figure for total firearm related deaths (homicide + suicide + unintentional) were:
US - 9.0
Canada - 4.78
Switzerland - 6.4
UK - 0.22
Interestingly, the only country in Europe that has a larger proportion of deaths per 100,000 than Switzerland was Montenegro (a part of former Yugoslavia). OK, most Swiss deaths were suicides rather then homicides, but the ratio in all cases was over 10 times greater than in the UK.
I'm in the UK. I quite like our gun laws, and the figures show they work.
I'm not exactly sure why, but when it comes to mapping some non-existent being's non-existent journey, Bing seems somehow so much more appropriate than Google.
Why the fuck do we keep voting these people into power?
Oh, various reasons, ranging from party-tribalism, PR (advertising that speaks to our emotions rather than to our reason), short-termism (individually and collectively), a biased press, and even the electoral system. Talking of which, we had the opportunity recently (in the UK) to try and improve (albeit slightly) our electoral system, and in a referendum, it was rejected - and rejected by a large margin - by the voters. I've really never quite understood why.
I think that the whole process of politics is probably corrupting. A new MP (or whatever) may be visionary and idealistic, but the tribalism and power-mongering (for 'promotion' and 'ministerial office') seems to destroy this. It becomes a game - you against the opposition (or even against members of one's own party), and you'll do whatever it takes to keep you in your job, even if that may not be the best for the nation in the long term. Those who seem to keep their idealism and vision do not make progress or get promoted. They're not good for a political 'career'.
To some extent we the voters are complicit in allowing it to happen.
As to IPv6, I'm sure we'll get there after the US and the rest of Europe (and possibly the rest of the world) have been using it for some time. And all the while we'll be asking why the UK isn't managing to compete globally in new technologies.
And as to Global Warming, I think we're doomed. It's actually quite depressing. There is a part of me relieved that I don't have children.
(and those laws may also mean the police/TLAs can show up and "request" that you install their little black box next to your router).
Would that be a problem? I thought the point about a Tor exit node is to hide the source of any request, not necessarily the destination. A black box would just log the destination (the 'source' being the TOR node itself).
Arab != Muslim.
There are non-Muslim Arabs, and there are Muslim non-Arabs. (There are even those who call themselves 'Arab Jews', e.g. André_Azoulay).
There is also a Jewish population in Iran. Although it seems their condition is not ideal, many seem quite content to stay. (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Jews.
I also find it ironic that in the same paragraph you can reference the Holocaust (which we both can agree was terrible), yet then use dehumanising language like "... savages who want to put the world back into the bronze age and FORCE everyone to pray to Allah" (For respect I've capitalised 'Allah' from your quote, even though I'm not a Muslim). See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dehumanization. It is clearly wrong to say all Muslims or Arabs are 'savages', as much as it was clearly wrong to classify all Jews as 'cholera bacilli' (as one German antisemitic journalist described them).
Sometimes I fear we become a reflection of that which we propose to hate.
This reminds me of the 'voice ban placed on Sinn Féin by Margaret Thatcher in 1988. (Sinn Féin is, or was, the political wing of the Provisional IRA).
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerry_Adams#Voice_ban
I remember Gerry Adams being interviewed on TV during the ban. He was silent, and they had an actor reading out his words, rather like a ventriloquist dummy! It was very bizarre.
The ban applied to both Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness (and others).
Interestingly, since then we've had the Good Friday Agreement, and Martin McGuinness is now deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland. Peace can win out in the end.
and so, its all the jooos fault. always the jooos fault.
the rocket rallies STARTED on the hamas side. but that does not become part of your post, does it? its the jooos that are wrong.
the hatred of jews in the modern US is sickening. I'm not sure why its so in vogue to blame all the problems in the area on the jews, but nothing seems to have changed with that great Last Lesson that the world had some 60+ yrs ago.
Israel != Jews. Yes, Israel is a Jewish state, but to have concerns over what Israel does in no way makes one anti-semitic. Indeed, there are Jews who have concern over the actions of Israel. Unfortunately, it is very convenient for some (on all sides) to blur the distinction between 'The State of Israel' and 'Jew'.
Also, to have concerns over Israeli actions in no way means support for the actions of Hamas. Another distinction it seems convenient for some to blur.
It was probably more of a (positive) comment on the number of women who seem to be involved in the issue / in the EU Parliament.
Found an interesting document from my parliament (warning - PDF): http://www.parliament.uk/briefing-papers/SN01250.pdf. From this it seems that 35% of the EU Parliament are women. (The corresponding percentage for the UK is 22%. No idea what it is for the US after the recent elections, but according to the document in 2010 it was 17%).
Still could be better, of course. Only two parliament has either more women than men or the same number - Rwanda and Andorra! Given the figures globally I can't think that a positive observation on the role women are playing in any parliament can be considered misogynistic.
Alternatively, was the work you were looking for misandristic?
Children serving life without parole, rest of the world combined: 0
Not quite true. There are also child prisoners in North Korea who are unlikely to be released.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_22:
Based on the guilt by association principle (Korean: [some Korean text that Slashdot won't print here], yeonjwaje) they are often imprisoned together with the whole family including children and the elderly.[12] All prisoners are detained until they die and prisoners are never released.[18]
So no, not just the USA.
Of course, if you meant the rest of the civilized world, then you'd probably be correct.
Now, I can say the only thing I really don't like in XFCE is Thunar... for me it lacks lots of functionality (like, ffs, copy-paste with right button!). But even so, i cant even think of trying to use unity or gnome shell again.
Thunar 1.2.3 here and I can copy and paste files and text(when renaming) with the right mouse button. Or am I missing something?
Indeed. The only problem I have with Thunar (which is a minor one) is that I can't paste a file into a directory where the files (in 'Detailed List' view) fill up the entire displayed view. One needs to click on white-space for the 'paste' option to appear (and clicking on white-space to the right of files in Detailed List view selects a file). My solution it to temporarily switch to compact list of icon view. I can live with this.
Strangely in my LMDE XFCE Application Menu, The Nautilus icon is the one used! One day I'll fix this. (And it is Thunar 1.2.3 I'm using, I checked in Help > About).
. . ., there's no 3D acceleration, . . .
I've no idea how good it is (as I don't use it), but there is an "Enable 3D Acceleration" check-box in the later versions of VirtualBox.
At the very least a VirtualBox installation of Windows (any version) would allow one to get familiar with Windows without the hassle of a complete restore if things go wrong!
What I have mild concerns about is the use of the 3.5 branch of the Linux Kernel. This branch is already flagged as 'EOL', so I can't see any updates past 3.5.7. I'm not aware of any Ubuntu version upgrading a major kernel branch between releases (although I may be wrong). Is this an issue?
I'm from Europe (UK). I don't mind paying taxes. Actually I would like them to go up. That way we can increase what we spend on socially cohesive and useful things like State Education and the NHS. ("Socialised" medicine is generally viewed in an almost diametrically opposite way over here than it seems to be viewed over where you are in the States. I think it is fantastic. I'm not alone, and woe betide any government that breaks it. I can get ill and know I won't be bankrupted).
Why do you need a V6 that only does 16MPG?
As a 52 year old developer - no!
I'm currently a Java developer. Played with it on-and-off since about 2000 (when I was 40). However didn't become a fully fledged Java developer until 2009. Before that I was a VB6 developer (which I started learning when I was 41!). Next challenge, GWT.
What is more, in any other profession (e.g. medicine, law) where there can be rapid changes in knowledge and skill required, you don't get the issue of 40 (or 50 or 60) being too old.
You're never too old! I intend to keep on with this stuff even when I retire. It's fun!
I'm sure if I bought a DVD of "Die Hard", made copies of it, and started handing them out he'd be OK with that too, right Bruce?
No, but if you wanted to hand out that one DVD to someone - you know, the physical one you bought - he'd be OK with that.
Out of sheer curiosity, what are the C/C++ alternatives to JEE and associated frameworks/technologies/containers (e.g. EJBs, JSPs, JSFs, Spring, Hibernate, Struts, GWT, Tomcat, JBoss, etc)?
Thanks
Presumably this means that the affected host systems must have Java installed. Seems to me a brilliant example of the "Write Once, Run Anywhere" paradigm!
If you were to take some GM and some non-GM equivalent into a lab, would it be possible for scientists to analyse the two and tell which was which (say by analysing gene sequences)?
If you were to take some food touched by a black person and some food not touched by a black person into a lab, would it be possible for scientists to analyse the two and tell which was which?
There's the difference. Surely that is why the public should have the right to know about the former and not the latter?
Thanks for this. Looks interesting. I'll give it a try.
initdb and pg_ctl are under the .../pgsql/bin directory. It was the path to these that I was talking abou (i.e. PostreSQL itself)t, not the path specified by -D (i.e. to a database instance).
/pgsql/bin locally using configure/make/make install. Not quite as simple as a unpacking a tar.gz file, but doable.
No matter, I've managed to install the
Replying to myself. Just got PostgreSQL installed locally from source using ./configure (using --prefix=/home/...) make and make install. No need to worry about creating a postgres user.
The only dependencies I had to install was libreadline6-dev and libtinfo-dev.
Not quite out-of-the box, but similar to what I have to do the get the Apache HTTPD server running locally.
If the GP is concerned about people being able to download and "tinker," that's not a mainstream concern
As the 'GP' concerned, I agree with you. I also agree that I could install from my distributions repository (assuming it is up-to-date. My repository - LMDE - is based on Debian Testing) or use the .deb from PostgreSQL direct. I agree I could even install it in a virtualised environment.
.tar.gz and unpack.
However, the the comparison originally was against MySQL. Unlike PostgreSQL, with MySQL all you need to do is download a generic
(As to the postres user, I may be wrong about needing that if using a local user to make and run PostgreSQL. It may be only needed if installing/building as root, to provide a common access user to PostgreSQL data files but at a lower access that root. At some point I will experiment by building PostgreSQL from source)
I've played around with Sqlite in the past. I'm not sure I'd want it as a drop-in replacement for either MySQL or PostgreSQL. I must admit, as a Java developer I'm more likely to use Apache Derby, which can be used embedded or client/server.
Of course, if there is the facility to run PostgeSQL out-of-the-box and stand-alone, please feel free to correct me!
Sure, I can do that for you. Your assumption is wrong.
I'm sure my assumption is wrong, but until you tell me how to do it, I'm not going to believe you.
.tar.gz Linux generic package, unpack it locally, run 'mysql/scripts/mysql_install_db' and then run 'mysql/bin/mysqld_safe'. All done as me (not root).
For MySQL (and MariaDB) all I need to do is download the
For PostgreSQL the only instructions I could find for installing PostgreSQL myself is to build from source (OK with --prefix=$HOME/...) and you still need to create the postgres user (which means it is not stand-alone for my user!).
One day I'll try this, but this is not running PostgreSQL 'out-of-the-box'.
If you know differently, please share how. Thanks.
For me, the one advantage MySQL (and MariaDB, and even Apache Derby!) have over PostgreSQL is that there are versions that can be run stand-alone "out of the box" as a non-root user. PostgreSQL (AFAIK) needs to be installed, and needs to be installed as root (and you need to create a postgres user, etc.).
OK for production, you need to install things properly (as root), but for development / learning / tinkering the ability to run various instances stand-alone is a huge plus.
(Of course, if there is the facility to run PostgeSQL out-of-the-box and stand-alone, please feel free to correct me!)